SHEEP-BREEDING EXPERIMENT
Sire in England, Dam In Poland (Received May 16, 12.50 a.m.) London, May 15. “The Times” records that the Cambridge University School of Agriculture sent male fertilising fluid from a Suffolk ram in a vacuum flask packed in ice to Poland by airmail, taking 51 hours- Subsequently a Polish ewe gave birth to a ram lamb, half Suffolk and half Polish, aptly named “the airman.” There is no doubt as to its parentage. . The experiment demonstrates the widening possibilities of future use of valuable sires in improving the quality of live stock. The problem of how to maintain the fluid's fertility for a longer period, thus allowing transport over reasonable distances, is yet unsolved. Transport of fluid has been carried otif on a. practical scale in Russia, but tbe Cambridge-Poland experiment is the first exchange between countries.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 196, 16 May 1936, Page 11
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